ramshackle
adjective
[ ˈramʃak(ə)l ]
• (especially of a house or vehicle) in a state of severe disrepair.
• "a ramshackle cottage"
Similar:
tumbledown,
dilapidated,
derelict,
ruinous,
falling to pieces,
decrepit,
neglected,
gone to rack and ruin,
run down,
crumbling,
decaying,
disintegrating,
rickety,
shaky,
unsteady,
broken down,
unsound,
unsafe,
shambly,
geriatric,
shacky,
rumpty,
Origin:
early 19th century (originally dialect in the sense ‘irregular, disorderly’): alteration of earlier ramshackled, altered form of obsolete ransackled ‘ransacked’.
